"Funeral lamentations, bocete, more readily called by the word vaiete in the Oash country, sung by women of the family of the deceased.
A group of women singin , but each for herself, on a descending meloody (which is quite common in funereal chanting).
Performed in the house of the deceased around the open Coffin. The vaiete are proclaimed by the large horns called trîmbita, and must cease when the horns recommence. They are also sung individually at the cemetery, by the tomb.
Interrupted with sobbin, the words recall the life of the deceased."